Limit distribution of the quartet balance index for Aldous’s $(\beta \ge 0)$-model

• This paper builds on T. Martínez-Coronado, A. Mir, F. Rosselló and G. Valiente’s 2018 work, introducing a new balance index for trees. We show that this balance index, in the case of Aldous’s $(\beta \ge 0)$-model, converges weakly to a distribution that can be characterized as the fixed point of a contraction operator on a class of distributions.

Subject headings

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Matematik -- Sannolikhetsteori och statistik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Mathematics -- Probability Theory and Statistics (hsv//eng)

Keyword

balance index

contraction method

phylogenetic tree

tree shape

weak convergence

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